Ralf Little: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Ralf Little said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

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Chris Bryant

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

John Simpson English journalist

I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

Ephraim Asili Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ

I’d have lesser expectations — those expectations not being as great might actually be more effective

Recorded MEL Magazine source ↗

Suzanne Vega American singer-songwriter

I would have tried to meet Lou Reed backstage. I went to see him for years, and never tried to meet him. Eventually we met at award shows and did become friends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗